[fab] project hosting?

Colin Bodell cbodell at vasoftware.com
Wed Apr 19 19:53:29 UTC 2006


Why would you not want to rely on VA Software or SourceForge for anything?
We're quite happy relying on RedHat for Linux distro's. There is quite a 
number of
Redhat staff hat have accounts on SourceForge and use it frequently, 
that read Slashdot
daily etc etc.

Col

seth vidal wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 12:34 -0700, Colin Bodell wrote:
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>
>>Why should it be avoided? SourceForge.net is not open source yet 
>>delivers a tremendous service to the community.
>>We should focus on capability and community value. You get a no cost, 
>>turnkey, hosted system with  admin, backup network that you
>>can configure the meet the needs of the Fedora community etc. That's not 
>>a bad deal in my book. Compare SourceForge Enterprise
>>against, say, Savannah (except there is not much of a comparison). I'd 
>>be happy to admin it for the community too :-)
>>    
>>
>
>Okay,
> I'll say what I bet a lot of red hat folks don't want to say for
>various political reasons.
>
>I, speaking only for myself, am uncomfortable relying on vasoftware or
>sourceforge for anything.
>
>It being closed source is just ANOTHER nail in the coffin of using
>sourceforge enterprise, imo.
>
>-sv
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